The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-26


22d. She was starting to slide on a
wire from the roof to the stage, sup
porting herself by her teeth clinched on
a strap, when a sudden jerk of the wire
loosened her grip, and she fell to the
floor of the centre circle, a distance of
about fifty feet, striking on her stomach.
Her left hip was badly bruised, and it
is feared that she sustained. dangerous
internal injuries.
while a boiler of Il TO 10 horse.
power was being tested in a yard in
Buffalo on the 22d, it suddenly blew up,
remaining intact. Crossing the street
it made a large hole in the third story
of a brick building, and in falling to
the ground, demolished a small frame
shed. No person was injured.
William Schearer, a machinist, was
attacked by three highwaymen at n
of the approaches to a bridge in Cincin-
natl, on the evening of the 2lst, and
robbed of $500 which he carried in a
belt.
BY an explosion of natural gas at
the Black Diamond Steel Works in
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 2lst, six men
were severely burned, one of whom,
named James Kerr, is not expected to
recover. The explosion took place dur
ing the repairing Of a furnace, and vt
is thought some of the workmen turned
the gas on for a joke or did not know OF
the repairs to be made"
A man representing himself as an
"Indian doctor" has been for several
weeks peddling quack medicine In
Reading, Penna., from door to door. A
child of Conrad Barth which was given
some Of the medicine for a slight all
ment died on the 22d in horrible agony.
The Coroner has taken the matter IN
hand and officers are searching for the
doctor" who has fled. A number Of
grown persons were made very sick by
his ''medlcine."
Jose Morante was shot dead by
his brother-In-law, Jose Cesneros, in
Matamoras. Mexico, on the morning OF
the Dist. There was ill-feeling between
them. At the time of the shooting,
Morante was speaking to Cesneros'
wife. AT Piqua, Ohio, on the morning
of the 21st. Alexander Beasley stabbed
his wife to death, and then committed
suicide by cutting his own throat. They
had been separated for some time, and
she had refused to live with him again.
John SeitZenauer shot and wounded his
wife, and then committed suicide by
jumping from a ffth.story window in
New York. on the afternoon of the
21st. Family troubles were the cause.
The couple had fifteen children, Of
whom eleven are 10Y living,
Hannah Mary Tabs. the colored
woman arrested in Philadelphia on
the Dist on suspicion of having carried
to Eddington on a railroad train III
the 10th the dismembeTed trunk of a
nan found the following day in a creek
at that place, on the 22l made a state,
ment to Chief of Detectives Kelly
relative to the crime. She says Wake
field Gains and George Wilson, two
young colored meE, quarreled at her
house, on Richards street, on the
morning of the 10th, about Annie
Richardson, a young colored woman,
and that Wilson beat Gains with a
chair until he was unable to speak or
move. Then, according to the wOman's
statement, Wilson took the body into
the cellar, cut off the limbs and
wrapped up the trunk, which she car
ried to Eddington. Wilson was ar
rested on the evening of the 22d. He
denies all knowledge of the crime, ex-
cept what he read in the newspapers.
Chief Kelly expects to find the missing
limbs, and to reveal the. whereabouts
of Annie Il chardson, who m~ysteri0usly
disappeared from Eddlngtop last May.
The Director of the Mint reports
that the production of gold in the
United States during the year 1886
exceeded thar of any previous year
since 1880, and almost equalled the
production of that year. 1t amounted
TO 1856, 600, 600 in 1886 against S3l,S00,-
eco in 1885, an increase of over S3,000,-
900. The production of silver, as
nearly as can be a~scertained, was
$40, 1896 ,93). The amount of gold bull
lion imported into the United States
was Sl7 ,947, 519 and the exports S27,'
862, 637. The appropriations were made
almost exclusively since August last.
There was also imported gold coin Of
the value of S23, 36l $3.50, and gold cOln
was exported to the value Of Sl3 $685.
1868. The total exports of gold bullion
and coin were Sal, Isl PIG.
Robert Hanks, a young farmer,
died of hydrophobia, at New Albany,
Mississippi, on the 21st. He was bitten
by a rabid dog in December last, but,
having applied a mad stone" to the
wound, felt no concern about the re-
suit.
AT Selma, alabama, on the even
ing of the 22d, Henry Smith, engineer
of the Electric Light Company, while
olling machinery, fell against an cleo
trlc brush and died almost instantly.